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...stylistically, in the new Administration is Labor Secretary Peter Brennan, a lifelong New York Democrat with a rough-and-ready tongue and no apologies for grabbing all he can for the workingman. Nixon reached deep into the labor movement to pluck out Brennan, president of the New York City and New York State Building and Construction Trades Councils. He is the first rank-and-file union member appointed to the post since President Eisenhower chose Martin Durkin, a plumber. But Brennan speaks the President's language on many issues, especially patriotism and the Viet Nam War. His appointment...
When Peter Brennan, 54, dons his new soft hat as Secretary of Labor, he will be repaid, as it were, for the hard-hat he presented to the President 2½ years ago. At the height of the public outcry over the U.S. incursion into Cambodia, Brennan organized a massive union march down Wall Street in support of the President. An elated Nixon invited Brennan and other union leaders to the White House, and friendship flowered to such an extent that Brennan rallied New York labor to Nixon for his reelection...
...well Brennan's new hat will fit is another matter.* It is surely not one he is used to. Born and bred in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen, given to plain speech laced with profanity, Brennan is a local power, to be sure, but he lacks a national constituency and-some would say-anything approaching national vision. Though he is respected by George Meany, he is not a member of the AFL-CIO executive committee. He speaks for a well-paid labor elite, not for the industrial rank and file...
...share his constitutional philosophy, voting as a bloc in 53 out of 70 of the court's recent nine-man decisions. Nixon quite likely will be able to make more appointments in his next term: William O. Douglas is 74, Thurgood Marshall is in shaky health at 64, William Brennan, 66, has talked of retirement. A great need in the emerging Nixon court is for sharp intellects who can write good law; the court is short on intellectual conscience and independent scholarship...
...truth, the children of Northern Ireland are what one British colonel calls "the most depressing thing about this depressing place." "There is nothing to be done with them," says Mrs. David Brennan, "except get them out of here. When my three-year-old son came in from stoning soldiers, I knew we had to go." The Catholic Brennans are leaving and so are thousands of others. This emigration, unlike earlier ones, is made up of skilled workers and professional people, Protestant as well as Catholic, who are leaving because they see no future in Northern Ireland. "The people...